Chapter 14 The Archenemy

Liliana Roslyn's POV.

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My chest tightens in its little space as the hammering sounds of my heart increases. My legs tremblingly takes steps backward while my breathing rag. Somehow in this deadly situation, I mindlessly notice that the owl that leads me to the death lair is long gone.

A perilous smile walks up onto the monster face as he takes his steps slowly and predaceously towards me. His deep chuckles sends quivers through my nerves and he root his hands into his pockets.

"Finally, we meet again. Slave." He declares, narrowing his eyes at me and checking out my reaction. "Is that fear I sense in you?" He laughs out loud. "Where is that brave girl at the academy?"

His walk towards me is lethal. He raises his hand and take a sharp glance at it before looking back at me. The wide smile that grew larger on his face indicate that he's satisfied with himself for scaring me. "Kneel, slave." He command and my body heed. A cool gas of cold air releases from his hand, the icing turning into the shape of a dagger. At this point, I lost my courage and I find myself begging him.

"Please, don't do this." I say as bad thought of what he's capable of reach my mind.

"Oh! I expected something feisty." He fakes a hurtful expression. "What a pity. How easy can you human fall. You all are weak." He spit.

He leans down leveling his mouth to my ears. "Humans are creature living by our mercy and in return all we want is for you to give out your blood but you are going to refuse?" His filthy words no more scare me. All I felt now is powerless, powerless as I felt before but I won't allow it again. I won't let him destroy the remains of me. I won't let him belittle me.

My laugh slowly raises from my throat as I spit back at him."You are all bitches and your king is of no difference! Why don't you end me now? Uh? At least you've made me see what death can feel like so it no longer freak me. Oh! Its because you are afraid. You are afraid that your king will punish you for killing his emit. That's it, you are like us, you receive orders and fear your superior just like me." I hope he kills me painlessly. I hope my words gets under his skin.

And where is Lucas when I needed him? Isn't he such a failure at keeping promises. I knew I couldn't rely on him. After all, he's a bender and its impossible for him to choose me over his race. Somewhere, deep inside me, perhaps subconsciously. I don't blame Lucas. All this is never anyone's fault but fate's.

"Are you challenging me, slave?" The voice of his monster can be heard. A deep navy blue light glows from his eyes. "I'm an acies. I don't take orders from anyone and not from Adrian." He's on the verge of losing it. My body heed to a foreign command as it fly up and my back hit the plain wall of the room. My first anguish cries haven't stopped before another ear piercing screams erupt from me when the dagger inhumanly fly towards me and crush it way into my ribcage.

The pain that shoot out of me from the impact is too unbearable and I can feel the frozen object piercing through me and nailing me against the wall. Neither can I hear my breathing nor feel my hammering chest. All my undivided attention goes to is my broken ribcage and the continues pain its brings.

"Is it painful darling?" He ask, sarcastically. "Will you like to feel more of the pleasure pain brings?" His ice smoking hands forms another frozen shape of dagger as I watch through teary vision. He suddenly stop the forming structure. "I've used some of my powers on you, now you will return them."

He drops me after which he melt the iced dagger. My frame falls floppily onto the small cabinet, making the vase containing fresh flowers to collide against my body as it cut me deeply before I finally hit the ground.

"How enjoyable is the pleasure?" Within seconds he's in front of me. His hands grab my neck. Our eyes bore into each other and I summon the strength to curse him my last cursing words.

"Fuck you."

His dark chuckles faintly fills my ears. Seeing through my heavy lashes, the electric surge moves from my neck onto his hands. He's feeding from me. To say it is painful is an understatement. The pain is unlike I've ever felt before.

Hot-scorching sensation!

Excruciating throe!

And.. Paroxysm agony!

I can feel my veins burning like it has been set on fire. It feels like my blood is boiling and are drying gradually. The pain continues as my cries. Just almost when my soul is packing out of me while my consciousness is fading. An authoritative voice booms into the room but I couldn't make out what its saying. Nevertheless, I wouldn't dare not knowing its owner.

"King Adrian." I find myself whispering as I fall onto the ground. I couldn't feel the presence of my archenemy anymore. I feel him handling me into another person's arms and I try my best at this awful state of mine to reject and stay in his reassuring and inviting arms but he hands me over however. Another familiar voice pleads me inside my head. "Give me this last chance, Ana. I'll not fail you again, my queen."

King Damon Adrian's POV.

Lieutenant Alexandros just woke up from a comatose state about half an hour ago after which he said he needed to pass some informations to me but I refrain, telling him that my available commanders must be present.

Sharply, I opened the connection barrier after ordering Alex to meet me in the meeting room. I then mind linked Lorenzo and Felix to do the same. Now it remains Lucas. I flashily run to his chamber on an intention to bring him along with me, that's if he's not too weak. Lucas hates to stay behind in governing matters, so I'm sure he should follow me.

On touching the door handle, the same eclectic feeling of affections and passion that I can never get enough of, hits me hard and runs through my veins. I eagerly open the door. Her scent hits my nostrils in the most pleasurable way as I inhale them. She's like a puzzle that can't be solved, she makes my dead heart beat every time she's near.

Slowly raising my gaze at her, I notice her breathing changes and she's looking back at me erotically or so I think. Maybe my imaginations are playing tricks on me. It feels like it's been ages since I last saw her. I notice she's still wearing the same posey dress I got her. It clings onto her frame like a second skin, bringing out all her curvy shapes. It takes a lot of restraining for me not to pour out my body's desire. I move away all the lustful thoughts and still ended up thinking about all her feisty words as I read her present thoughts. To not laugh out is really equivalent to a severe punishment right now and I end up smiling. Even with all this, I still need to stay away from her, but its becoming an impossible thing to do as each seconds pass. Bivatar doesn't want her still and he knows, its a punishment for us. I hope he let the past go. I wish he sees the truth and knows that she wouldn't have done it intentionally. Frederick must have been behind it all. He must have forced her to leave me.

Maybe the myth our ancestors believed are true, maybe Liliana is her  and now she's back after centuries. Maybe fate is rewriting itself, it's just that, will it favor our love this time?

Minute pass as we continue our intimate exploring. The door which leads to Lucas' room opens and his emit walks in. She immediately bows and I notice that she and Ana share some enmity. Ana seems to be lost in thought for a brief time before she regains herself but something tells me, it sadden her. Whatever it may be, I don't want to know it now.

Lucas voice calls us back to earth. "Enough eye fuckings." I roll my eye at him. He loves teasing. "I need to rest brother, see you around." He add but I mind link him, also remembering the reason I had come here in the first place. His eyes glow throughout the trance. He turns to his emit. "I'm coming, Linda. Just some minutes."

My jaw almost drop while he say this words. Who would ever believe that Lucas would give a human attention? Or perhaps, a hint of respect?

He detest them more than anything.

"Yes, sir." His emit replies and courtesy. She must have been a perfect emit but how come, she here as an emit. Perhaps, Lucas had broken her.

I'm sure my emit can never break, she would never want to let go and lose. She will stand on her words.

Jeez, what's wrong with me? How do I even know all this about her?

Lucas and I walks into the inner part of the room where he places his inventories.

"Alex has some information he wanted to pass." I say when we take a seat opposite each other. "I'm guessing it's about the Harlow's."

"Yeah, their numbers are rising. Well, Felix can tell you more, he has done most of all the investigation before I arrive." Lucas says and I nod.

"We will discuss it all in this meeting. So, you sure if you can attend?"

"Yes, let's go." Lucas says and stands, moving to the direction we came from. I pull back his hand, changing the topic.

"Did you tell her anything?" I say, referring to Liliana. My little fighter.

"Not anything you wouldn't want me to tell her." He reply, curtly.

I sigh and look down. "Bivatar is giving me a hard time about Ana."

Lucas rest his hands on both of my shoulders. "We can't discuss this now but I want you to know this, Ana is the right one. I don't know how she will rule but I know fate will bless us. She will restore the lost  balance."

Hearing Lucas say all this baffles me but as he's said, we can't chat much as for now. I nod in response.

Lucas narrows his eyes at me. "Master Logan is here, he escorted Jasmine here." With what Lucas said, the acies should be arriving soon.

(A/N; The story is getting closer to the stages where the acies would be fully known.)

"What about mother?" I ask Lucas. I can't have mother here while my affections for Liliana is growing. If mother should find out about it, then I don't know what can happen. Being the leader of acies, she has almost the same right as me.

"She's not here yet but she might arrive before the blood moon." Lucas says.

"We will continue this la..." Suddenly, I stop when the ear piercing cries of someone, important to me than anything hits my ears abruptly. Her flashily running heartbeat becomes lucid to me as my fist clench. My breathing rag, possessiveness clawing into me. My monster is on the edge. Her cries once again hurt my ears. My jaw instantly tense.

"Adrian, what's wrong?" Lucas ask but it feels like I couldn't hear him. All my undivided attention goes to is her.

"Adr..." I run out of the room. All I felt is a throbbing pain for letting her get punished. My legs move faster than ever before, I can hear flashy footsteps behind me but non of them can run closer to my pace. The footsteps is not of one person which means others must have notice my rage. Within seconds, I'm in the room.

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